Let’s dwelve into our first blog by doing a small visualisation exercise of the covid situation in Israel! I intend to make this first blog to be less formal but more friendly, so we can get to know each other better. Let’s visualize together!
Introduce the current situation in Iraq.
Choose this country purposely to show the counter intuitive
Irad used to be regarded as the “cradle of civilization” of the Middle Ages. The country is a home to many heritage and historic sites, originating back from the golden time of the Ottoman regime. Some of the cultural heritage we may have heard of would include the Hanging garden in Babylon, the remnants of palace and buildings…..
However, looking at the country now, all we see is a turbulence of time of wars, fightings and violences. Hunderes of Iraq people fled the country to run away from the terrorists, people died and lost their homes amid the bombing …. (find reference for this).
In the next section, i will try to recap some of the highlights of the Iraq’s contemporary current situation based on the choronological order. I handpicked only events that i believed directly led to the current state of Iraq. Before I start, i want you to answer this question yourself: “How do you make of Iraq? Is it a poor country with high children mortality rate, poor facility, high iliteracy rate and ect..”. Please keep your answer in mind and proceed.
Our story started
Kurds have never achieved nation-state status, making Kurdistan a non-governmental region and one of the largest stateless nations in the world.
Portions of the region are recognized by two countries: Iran, where the province of Kordestan lies; and northern Iraq, site of the autonomous region known as Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) or Iraqi Kurdistan.
Kurds were mostly nomadic until the end of World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
Kurds make up about 10% of the population in Syria, 19% of the population of Turkey, 15-20% of the population of Iraq and are the second largest ethnicity in Iran.
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1990 - Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait, prompting what becomes known as the first Gulf War. A massive US-led military campaign forces Iraq to withdraw in February 1991.
1991 April - Iraq subjected to weapons inspection programme.
1991 Mid-March/early April - Southern Shia and northern Kurdish populations - encouraged by Iraq’s defeat in Kuwait - rebel, prompting a brutal crackdown.
1991 April - UN-approved haven established in northern Iraq to protect the Kurds. Iraq ordered to end all military activity in the area.
1992 August - A no-fly zone, which Iraqi planes are not allowed to enter, is set up in southern Iraq.
1995 April - UN allows partial resumption of Iraq’s oil exports to buy food and medicine in an oil-for-food programme.
1996 September - US extends northern limit of southern no-fly zone to just south of Baghdad.
1998 October - Iraq ends cooperation with UN Special Commission to Oversee the Destruction of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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